How to embed external players?

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Hi!
Is there a way to embed an external sound player? I’m using thefuture.fm and they have an iframe based player, but I can’t find any way to have it show up in my post.
(Sorry if this has been asked a million times, didn’t find it using site search.)

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You can use Soundcloud, dropbox itou

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How do you embed it?

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In soundcloud look for share then copy paste the html here or the URL. I will look tomorrow if needed. See you

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I don’t know about thefuture.fm, but SoundCloud shows up if you put the link on its own line. I assume that’s what you’re asking about.

E.g.

image

becomes the following:

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I have my recordings on future.fm too, and did unfortunately not manage to embed tracks from there. I think SoundCloud and future.fm both use IFrames, but I was not able to figure out why one is supported while the other is not (something Discord-specific?). I would also love to share recordings here by embedding them instead of just linking.

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Hi folks,

If I’m reading things correctly, I think discourse has an “allowed iframes” setting that allows us to whitelist iframes from certain website domains, which would mean we could add thefuture.fm and others - and then you would paste the iframe embedding code here to make it show their audio player.
@samaaron what say you?

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I believe that iframe embedding should now be enabled for https://thefuture.fm :slight_smile:

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Test to embed IFrame as provided by TheFutureFM. The track should appear here:

Does not work in the preview…
And also not after saving…

:slightly_frowning_face:

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Sorry, I’m not quite sure what to do. Could you just post a link?

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Here is the embed code provided by TheFutureFM:

<iframe width="100%" height="165" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://thefuture.fm/track/862/house-experiment-001-sonic-pi/embed"></iframe>

You find the track here:

https://www.thefuture.fm/track/862/house-experiment-001-sonic-pi

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That’s a shame, I thought it was going to be a nice easy new feature :frowning:

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https://www.thefuture.fm/track/862/house-experiment-001-sonic-pi

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Embedding from TheFutureFM works now (with IFrames)! See this data sonification thread for an example.

Thanks a lot for activating this feature!

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Thank you for your quick response!

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